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Honestly? Why Am I Writing All These Articles?
By Ken | March 3, 2010
Article writing is one of the big things that you do as an internet marketer. If you have no written content you have no readers. You also have nothing for the search engines to use to categorise and understand your content.
Videos, pictures and RSS feeds are all very well but if you have no content you have nothing. That is the “short and curlies” answer to the question “Why am I writing all the articles” But there is a good way to write articles and a bad way.
The Bad Way To Write Articles
The bad way is where you take a mere shred of information and waffle on for 300 words. You go round and round with virtually no information in the article and offering no value to the human reader. Article directories are becoming far more selective in what constitutes a good article and what does not.
Even I have had some rejected and I take great pride and care with what I write.
The Good Way To Write Articles
The good way to write an article is to have something to say and write about it. Offer real information and your reader will want to know more. Offer no information and your visitor will think. “Nothing for me here” nd move on.
Your content must have that quality and knowledge to be successful. If you are working in niches that you know something about this should not be difficult. If however you are trying to make money in a niche you know nothing about then how can you bring value to your website.
This is why I much prefer working in niches where I am an expert. I recommend you do the same.
To answer the question at the top of the page.
There are 3 main reasons why you are writing articles. One is to have good keywords rich content on your website pages that gets found by the search engines.
Secondly you are writing to satisfy peoples thirst for information. If you have the answer to their problem then they will read and follow you.
Thirdly you can use your articles on other websites to get links back to your website. The most popular type of site to use is an article directory. These are usually high ranking website that will give you good quality links using the keyword phrase you are targeting.
There are other ways to use you articles by using them to answer peoples questions in forums and at Yahoo Answers.
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